Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers won the Leiden Half Marathon in Belgium this morning. With selection for the Rio ’16 marathon squad taking place tomorrow, Ganiel had hoped to prove her fitness by running a fast time. Unfortunately, warm, muggy conditions and cobbles on quarter of the course meant times generally were slow and […]
Regular Irish visitor Peter Brandon Somba had a narrow victory at the annual Terenure 5-mile in Dublin beating Raheny’s Mick Clohisey by a single second. Somba was timed at 23 mins 33 secs and Clohisey at 23 mins 34 secs on a perfect day for running – sunny, but not too warm. Third was Clonliffe’s […]
Home team Raheny Shamrock won the men’s senior title in a new record time at the Glo Health National Road Relays. First off for the team was Mark Kirwan who clocked a time of 9 mins 27 secs for the opening two-mile leg. He handed over to Kieran Kelly who ran 4 mins 22 secs […]
A 200m record for Marcus Lawler representing IT Carlow was just one highlight of a packed day of athletics at the Irish Universities Indoors in Athlone. Lawler won the 200m in 21.03 secs, with 400m hurdler Thomas Barr of UL second in 21.47 secs. Other records fell in the 60m hrudles won by Antonia Garcia […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk was in Blessington this morning where he battled it out with Kilkenny’s Brian Maher for victory in the annual Lakes 10km. In the end there was just two seconds in it, with Freddy getting there first. Over a minute behind in third place was Tommy Evans of Gowran. In the women’s race, […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan won his first outdoors 400m of the year at the International Flanders Meet in Oordegen, Belgium on Saturday. His time of 45.82 put him comfortably clear of France’s Mame-Ibra Anne who ran 46.26 and Andrew Steele of Great Britain in 46.79. Winning the women’s 400m was Shauna Cannon in 54.91; even faster […]
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